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From February 24, the topic of war between Ukraine and Russia is covered by most of news feeds in Kazakhstan media – the chronicle of military actions, sending of humanitarian supplies, anti-war protests, transfer of Kazakhstanis from Ukraine, economic consequences for Kazakhstan. CABAR.asia analysed the materials published by Kazakhstan media to know better how the events in Ukraine are covered.
This year, on March 8, Almaty will host a peaceful rally dedicated to the participation of women in the management of state affairs. This is the second time that the city authorities agreed to hold the protest rally. (more…)
The military entry of Russia to Ukraine left no one in the world indifferent. Western countries consider the recent actions taken by Vladimir Putin against the neighbouring state as a war and unleash an array of sanctions against Russia. The changes in the geopolitical arena relate to Kazakhstan, too. (more…)
While fighting fakes and disinformation, the policy of “double standards” must be abandoned. It is important not to cross the thin line between this struggle and freedom of speech, experts say.
In early 2022, President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev started to change the personnel policy in Kazakhstan. According to experts, the rate of political system transformation in Kazakhstan will remain high until the end of this year. Or maybe until the end of the second presidential term.
On 3 February 2022, the Central Asian office of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) and its analytical platform CABAR.asia hosted an international online expert discussion titled “Reforms in Kazakhstan 2.0: Security and Politics, Economy and Civil Society”.
For 30 years, Nursultan Nazarbayev has been deemed the eternal leader of Kazakhstan. The first president, founder of the Kazakhstan sovereignty, yelbasy – this is not the full list of all his titles he has received for all the years. But just in a few weeks of January 2022, the significance of his personality faded much.
In 2022, Kazakhstan will have to assess the effectiveness of both state programmes aimed at mass digitalisation in the country. Expert community has been concerned with the focus on quantity, not quality all this time. So far, this approach has only contributed to the increasing number of cyber threats and encouraged low digital culture of citizens. (more…)
This article attempts to find out how protests in Kazakhstan differ from each other, in which part of the country they occur more often, and at what time of the year there are the most protests.
Independent Kazakhstan has no healthy environment for the institutional opposition activity to grow and strengthen. The authorities prevented any attempts at the grassroots. (more…)